School of Business

Madison Reed home hair color founder and CEO Amy Errett '79 (CLAS) welcomes UConn students on their trip to Silicon Valley. (Submitted Photo)

Student Entrepreneurs Spend Spring Break in Silicon Valley

'This trip is really important for our students to see first-hand how the spirit of entrepreneurship works in a real setting,' said UConn's David Noble.

xCITE 2019

xCITE Event Focuses on Next Gen of Women Entrepreneurs

If the State of Connecticut is invested in creating and supporting the next generation of women entrepreneurs, it needs to revise the way we raise, educate, nurture, promote and encourage them, starting in pre-K.

Ashley Jacques '20 (BUS), right, in Ireland, with a friend in the program, Isabelle Lee from Fordham University. (Submitted Photo)

Education Abroad: Ashley Jacques ’20, Dublin, Ireland

'I am now kicking myself that I did not do a full semester,' says Ashley Jacques '20 (BUS), as she recalls the summer she spent with an Education Abroad program in Ireland last year.

UConn students impressed the judges in a National Diversity Case Competition in Indiana recently, where they gave personalized pitches describing the need for a grocery store in Hartford. Pictured from left (back row) are: Aaron Hooker, Nick Furlow, Sean Brown, and (front row) Belma Pehratovic. All are Hartford natives and all are business majors except Hooker, who is studying political science. (UConn School of Business)

Students Shine in National Diversity Case Competition

Four UConn students, who all grew up in Hartford, used personal examples of how difficult it can be to find fresh food in the capital city, impressing the judges at the National Diversity Case Competition in Indiana last month.

Students participate in Fresh Check Day in the concourse (atrium) at Uconn Stamford on Oct. 9, 2018. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Trustees Review Expansion Ideas for UConn Stamford Academics

In light of rapidly growing enrollment at the Stamford Campus, the University is considering adding new majors and additional student services.

Mostafa Analoui, executive director of venture development, speaks with Kashmira Kulkarmi, chief scientist, and Alex Tikhonov, senior scientist at Azitra's technology incubator lab at the Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington on Feb. 8, 2017. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Venture Development Helps Foster CT Business Opportunities

UConn's Mostafa Analoui sits down with MetroHartford Alliance to discuss how the University's entrepreneurship and venture development programs support business opportunities in the state.

Tahj-Anthony Jean at Farmhouse Crepes in Downtown Storrs.

Student Wrapped up in Farmhouse Crepes

Taj-Anthony Jean '19 shifted his view of himself, “from student-athlete to student-entrepreneur,” as he likes to say.

John A. Elliott, dean of the School of Business, has been appointed interim provost at UConn, effective March 1. (Nathan Oldham/UConn School of Business)

John A. Elliott Appointed Interim Provost

John A. Elliott, dean of the School of Business, has been appointed interim provost at UConn, effective March 1.

Jimmy Tang '11 (BUS), in his office at the Twitch headquarters in San Francisco. (Photo courtesy of Jimmy Tang)

Alumnus Among Forbes’ Game Industry ‘30 Under 30’

Twenty-nine year-old Jimmy Tang '11 (BUS), finance specialist at Amazon's livestreaming video platform Twitch, has been identified as one of an elite group of industry leaders.

Former Goldman Sachs partner Blake Mather, advisor to a new Student Managed Fund at UConn Stamford, meets with student managed fund members Di Yang, left, Anshul Manglani, both graduate students, and Lindsey Lozyniak '19 (BUS). (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Lessons in Investing

The advisor to a new Student Managed Fund at UConn Stamford, former Goldman Sachs partner Blake Mather, discusses what students can learn from the Business School's new program.